Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other“Crossings” in Fictionalized Slave Narratives

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene

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“…He also argues that anti-slavery literature written during the antebellum period is incoherent with scattered accounts of slavery and its conditions in America. Sherrard-Johnson (2004) also seems to propagate a similar kind of criticism, suggesting that anti-slavery narratives are mainly scattered and exaggerated accounts of the slaves in order to develop a specific empathy and sentimentality among the people. They also seem to assert that anti-slavery literature mostly consists of fiction than facts.…”

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Developing Emancipatory Thinking through Narratives in Antebellum America

Jamil

Shah

2020

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Literature has served as one of the most convincing tools for developing emancipatory thinking among Americans, particularly the colored people in the antebellum period. The current research paper is an attempt to study and explore how emancipatory thinking was developed through literature which is, generally considered to be more fictional than factual. Through the close reading of the selected narratives written during the period, the researcher has attempted to unearth various aspects and relate them with the factual accounts of the time in order to investigate their closer relationship with each other. This required a theoretical framework that would enable us to juxtapose the literary and non-literary texts to have an actual picture of the situation; therefore, the non-literary journalistic writings during that period have been studied parallel to the literary narratives. The findings and discussion developed in this study also suggest that further studies may also be conducted in order to dispel the misconception ascribed to narratives of the antebellum period that narratives are imaginary scattered accounts of the authors which are much exaggerated than to have elements of realism.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 92%

Developing Emancipatory Thinking through Narratives in Antebellum America

Jamil

Shah

2020

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The Trope of the Papers: Rethinking the (Un)Documented in African American Literature

Arrizón-Palomera

2021

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I argue for a reconceptualization of undocumentedness, the experience of being undocumented, from an experience that is simply a result of the modern immigration regime to an experience that is a result of interlocking systems of oppression and resistance to them that has shaped Blackness and the vision for black liberation. I make this argument by defining and tracing the trope of the papers—the use of legal and extralegal documents to examine and document African Americans’ and other people of African descent’s relationship to the nation-state—in the slave narrative and the neo-slave narrative. I offer a close readings of slave narratives, including Sojourner Truth’s The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, and neo-slave narratives, including Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) and Gayl Jones’s Mosquito (1999), to illustrate the significance of the undocumented immigrant in African American literature and demonstrate that writers of African American literature have been thinking intensely about undocumentedness, although not in the way undocumentedness is typically understood.

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Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other“Crossings” in Fictionalized Slave Narratives

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Developing Emancipatory Thinking through Narratives in Antebellum America

Developing Emancipatory Thinking through Narratives in Antebellum America

The Trope of the Papers: Rethinking the (Un)Documented in African American Literature

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